Founder & Partner

4 times 25 are also 100...

I am not looking for the quick profit. I am looking for a consistent performance. Instead of being lucky once, achieving 100 percent annual return, I prefer four years at 25 percent.

Four years in which I know exactly what I am doing, being always in control of the situation.

Performance is the best advertisement!

I'm not just posting some winning trades on social media platforms, bragging about it. I show you the truth: consistent performance of our live accounts on all our websites. Our own accounts, the families' and friends' accounts and recently, also the accounts of our satisfied customers.

I think that's the best advertisement one can have and our consistent success speaks for itself.

About us

When passion becomes a calling...

...and a calling becomes a profession. And there aren't many professions with a reputation worse than a banker's, broker's, or even more perfidious, a trader's. This special species is often stigmatised as ‘gamblers’. People generally point to them as the cause of major (financial) crises.

But - why?

Well, because people have a tendency of remembering negative things rather than positive things. That's the way the media works. The media are just waiting for 'disasters' to happen because they sell so much better. The burst of the dotcom bubble in 2000, the terror attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the subprime crisis in 2008 and the euro crisis in 2011 are burnt into everyone's memory.

The losers in the financial crisis will probably never recover, so it’s not surprising that the majority of private investors have turned their backs on stock. The stock market is witchcraft, shares are the work of the devil... To openly state that one is active on the stock market is like ending a conversation before it begins: Oh no...! Let's change the subject...

That's a pity because every stock market crash has an end and that end is always the beginning of a bull market. The secret of success lies a) in the faith that you have entrusted the 'right' experts with your money and b) in the right time to entrust the experts with it. The risk of loss is always controllable and the stock market is the only place you will ever be able to achieve returns above the inflation rate.

How it all started ...

At the end of 2007, I used an asset manager in Marbella to deposit a seven-digit sum in a private bank. Quite a large amount of that money quickly vanished like ice cream in the sun. As my account continued to shrink, they drove ever larger cars …

I became one of the many to lose all faith in the financial market and blame every advisor and asset manager there was to blame. Unjustly, as it turned out, because I could not have chosen a worse time to invest my money: the subprime crisis and the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers were in full swing and incurring heavy losses on investors' accounts.

Because I was naïve and had quickly lost all faith in the financial market, I withdrew my capital and invested it in Holiday Rentals. But as it turned out, my then asset manager had in fact given me the right advice. He suggested minimizing the stock in my portfolio and riding out the crisis with high cash holdings. At the beginning of 2009 already, his advice seemed to pay off:

The markets were recovering worldwide. Big market players started investing at the same time that interest rates were being slashed around the world and the US was introducing bond-buying programs. The bull market quickly took off and awarded stockholders with huge returns.

I missed that boat big time. Needless to say, this huge upswing piqued my interest in the capital market. The stock market bug had a firm hold on me and so I decided to educate myself.

Time is money...

I invested a lot of both in my education: countless books, seminars in Germany and England, webinars, remote courses, coaching... During this very intense learning period, I invested my money virtually 24 hours a day in almost all of the financial markets in the world. I tried numerous trading platforms, learnt about 'strategies', 'systems' and 'indicators' and I bought every online product available in today's broker world: stock, funds, ETFs, CFDs, futures, options and a lot of other exotic types of derivatives.

The result? I lost... I burnt money, a lot of money, and especially my own money! I subscribed to investment newsletters, followed all of the gurus, invested in signal services and social trading. None of it helped: I kept on losing!

And to top it all off, my knowledge and my bank account seemed to be developing in opposite directions... What was the difference between successful stock market traders and me, the newbie and amateur? I was cannon fodder for the experts! Had I continued investing haphazardly at the rate I was investing in, I would have gone bankrupt.

So how do you achieve long–term success on the stock market?

Very few traders do. And long–term doesn't mean an arbitrary period of time, or a specific annual return, or a big sum of money that you made from a lucky trade.

Long–term success on the stock market is achieved by people who can live the rest of their lives trading on the stock market, who have gained their wealth by trading on the stock market behind a curtain of inconspicuousness. I call them 'hidden champions'. They are people who were trained well and usually had a mentor who taught them all of the tricks of the trade and passed on their knowledge.

I didn't have a mentor and I'm also not a hidden champion. I'm also not inconspicuous or you wouldn’t be reading this text on this webpage. But I am very knowledgeable and the constant setbacks and losses have not only made me resilient but have also enabled me to develop my intuition, the gut feeling. And that's why I always win—discretionarily—at least more than I lose. Wealthy is not what it will make me...

It wasn't until I started using emotionless, fully automated trading systems that my account started recovering from the losses. I found it a lot more relaxing to let algorithms trade for me while I monitored and adjusted them from time to time. What many think of as 'hocus pocus' was my holy grail.

You don't believe me? You might not know this, but in the USA alone over 70% of all stock market transactions are performed by algorithms. The trend in Europe and the rest of the world is similar and on the rise. If you ignore this method because of a lack of interest or capital then you will only ever be David fighting a lost battle against Goliath—for ever and ever and ever.

I still trade every day using clearly defined trading strategies. But most of my capital is invested in computer-based, fully automated trading.

Philosophy

YOU are supposed to know ...

Friends and family often ask what our proprietary trading firm considers as today's best investments: Whose stock should I buy? What’s the deal with gold? When will the price of oil go up again? Or should I wait for a while...?

And all I ever do is shrug and say: I have no clue! This is when I get this look of incredulity just before they say: But YOU are the stock market expert, you're supposed to know these things?!

When I trade discretionarily from time to time, I am a chart–oriented trend trader. Not a fundamentalist with a master's degree in business administration or financial Management. I don't work as an analyst in a large bank or an investment company. And even the highly paid experts don't have a crystal ball! And that's why our philosophy is also our strategy.

The 'big boys'—powerful market players

The really big players such as (hedge) funds, pension funds and big banks may not have a crystal ball, but they do have two very significant advantages over the millions of private trend traders:

they have the huge amount of capital needed to sway prices, start and end trends, and determine the course of the world's stock markets. In order to earn money, you have to follow in their footsteps.

And: they have the knowledge needed to invest the money productively meaning: long, rigorous training. The 'big boys', as I affectionately call them, are generally trained by investment companies, brokerages, stock broking banks and other large, institutional market players. In addition, these experts had or still have a mentor, an old hand who passes down his knowledge to the best. And the traders that move the big money also went through a selection process in their firms.

I didn't have that kind of training although I did successfully complete a CFTe course, read countless books, attended loads of seminars and even got coaching from so–called trading gurus who earned thousands of euro off me. And it hurt my wallet. As a small autodidactic trend trader with a microscopic trading capital of 'just' seven figures, it's hard to stay afloat in the huge shark tank. Only a few retail traders are able to achieve steady market returns. Long–term, you’re probably looking at no more than 10 percent.

That's why I looked for other ways to make money on the stock markets. My strategy: If you can't beat the big guys, then get them on your side! I use simple and proven trade strategies used by former institutional experts so I don't have to trade anymore: I'm speaking of fully automated trading systems, so–called Expert Advisors. The systems run a pre–programmed emotionless trading strategy 24/5. And you can always control the risk and adjust the amounts in the accounts.

The biggest market players have been using the systems for quite some time.Algorithmic stock trading is the future—and nothing is going to change that.Algorithms like the ones the big boys use enable you to trade stress-free. My job no longer consists of competing against the experts as a discretionary trader but of feeding my system with their strategies, monitoring it and adapting it to the volatilities of daily trading.